True Blood Mani

In honor of the season premiere of True Blood, which happens to be my favorite TV show ever!! The season premiere was last night but I don't have HBO so I have to wait until tonight to watch it so don't tell me what happened!! I have been waiting so long for this season to start! I am going to keep this short and sweet so here they are:

It is kind of hard to tell but I actually couldn't fit the whole word "BLOOD" on the thumb :( Oh well I still like them. I started with two coats of Sinful Colors Back on Black. I then did splatter on all nails except the thumbs using Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Cherry Red. I used a striping brush and WnW French White Creme to paint the letters and the fangs. This design was surprisingly simple to do and I love the way it turned out! Any other True Blood fans out there? Remember not to tell me about what happened :)

Holo Glitter Top Coat

Friday's field trip was to the science center and I really didn't want to wear my picnic nails so I did a simple mani which I ended up falling in love with. These nails make me think of outer space. I found myself staring endlessly at my nails and moving them around in the light :)

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I first put on two coats of Sinful Colors Black on Black. I then did one coat of the Cover Girl Sparkling Top Coat- Goddess. Simple but so pretty!! Believe me when I tell you that the pictures do not do these justice. In person they are so freaking sparkly!

Sunflowers In The Sky

I have seen so many cute sunflower manis and they just look so cute and summery so I decided to try a sunflower nail design of my own. This mani was done freehand and I feel like I am getting better at doing freehand. The possibilities are endless when doing freehand nail designs! I am going to let the pictures do the talking for this mani:

For this mani I did 2 coats of this mini Sally Girl polish which does not have a name on it... Two coats of this stuff was not fun. After putting on my base coat and the first coat of this I went back to do the second coat and the brush started taking off the first coat as I tried to gently stroke it on... it was useless, I had to let the first coat dry most of the way before putting on the second coat. Maybe it had something to do with the base coat but it was a pain in the butt.

Anyways, for the petals I used a striping brush from an art deco polish with Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lightening. The petals are not perfect but I feel like it makes it look more like a sunflower. Then using the same brush and WnW Sunny Side Up, I added some extra detail to the petals. For the centers of the sunflowers, I used Sinful Colors Nirvana and applied it with rounded brush. I coated the whole thing with SV as usual! The first 3 pictures are a more accurate representation of the true color of this polish.

First Post!

This is my very first post on my blog! I am new to blogging so bear with me. I have a lot of catching up to do since all of my manis have been posted on Facebook until now. I will try to post a mani everyday for a while so I can catch up. After that I will post a new mani every 2-3 days since that is how often I do my nails.

This was my St. Patty's Day mani! 

For this mani I used Sinful Colors San Francisco as the base, I then used Bundle Monster plate BM03 to stamp the shamrocks on my fingers and Fauxnad plate B45 to stamp the thumb. I stamped the shamrocks in Pure Ice Fast Lane and white Art Deco. I then used my dotting tool to dot in gold glitter Art Deco. I like using the Art Deco colors to stamp because they are thick but the only problem is that they show through. The white on my thumb looks more like a light green. I guess I should just suck it up and buy the konad polish in white. Anyone have any better suggestions for a white polish for stamping?